May 2003

Features

Seven Ways to Help Your Hospital Stay in Business

Kathryn J. Stewart

Implementing an EMR System: One Clinic's Experience

Paul W. Smith

Dealing With a Health System That Fails to Honor Your Employment Agreement

David Dearden

Caring for Frequent-Visit Patients

Robert D. Gillette

Departments

Editor's Page

Perverse Incentives, Perverted System
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

An Update on the E/M Codes and Documentation Guidelines
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Group Visits 101
Sue Houck ; Charles Kilo ; John C. Scott

Computers

Evidence-Based-Medicine Tools for Your Palm-Top Computer
Matt Lewis

Balancing Act

Forget About Time Management
Pamela J. Vaccaro

Coding & Documentation

• Documenting Observation and Admission • Defining an E/M Service • NDC Numbers on Claims • Pharmacologic Management • Mini Mental Status Exam

Ask FPM

• Transition to Open Access • Medicare Secondary Payer Forms • Billing for Temporary Physicians • Documentation Forms for Preventive Exams

Practice Diary

• Office Manager for a Day • Life Insurance • A Friend in Need II

Monitor

• Supreme Court Affirms "Any Willing Provider" Law • Going the Extra Mile • Get Specific With Your Praise • Family Practice Match Numbers Continue to Decline • Doctors, Hospitals Try New Response to Medical Errors

Letters

• Affirming a Difficult Choice

• Electronic MOM Care Forms

• PDA Software Features

• Anticipating Open Access

• Expanding the Role of Nurses

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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